34 adjectives to describe lapping
Mrs. Heeny, swooping down on her bag, drew from it a handful of newspaper cuttings, which she spread on her ample lap and proceeded to sort with a moistened forefinger.
It was to ring out yet once againand, incapable of the anticipation, I reposed my shut eyes in a sort of resignation upon the maternal lap.
The purposeful deliberation with which the woman finished her work; the dead silence about us, broken only by an occasional faint lapping of the river against its bank; the knowledge that this was a deed of revengeall these things produced a mental state in me which was as near to the awful as ever I approached it.
Above the gentle lapping of the river he had suddenly heard a sharp clear "Hist!"
They set off arm in arm along the deserted Quai, and to the accompaniment of the faint lapping of the water against the retaining walls, told each other the history of their pastwhich was succinct enough, their present ideas, and their hopes for the futurewhich were boundless.
She was no sylph when I knew her, my dear Miss Aitken, but she had a most comfortable lap, and a cap with cherry ribbons, and the kindest heart in all the world.
Standing there confused in the grim silence, unable for the instant to determine how to advance in the dark, he could hear the rapid beating of his own heart, and the continuous lap of waves outside.
But nothing came upwards from that mighty abyss save the now more distinct lapping of the billows round the boulders, for the tide was rapidly setting in.
Must repose for countless years, Reft of all her briny tears, All the rights he owned by birth, In the dusty lap of earth.
And, while thou fillest thy lap with flowers, To make amends for wintery hours, The breeze, the sunshine, and the place, Shall from thy tender brow efface Each vestige of untimely care, That sour restraint had graven there; And on thy every look impress A more excelling childishness.
Instead of flying to her friendly lap for that protection which I had so often experienced when I have been weak and timid, I shrunk back terrified and bewildered to my bed, where I lay in broken sleeps and miserable fancies, till the morning, which I had so much reason to wish for, came.
But so might one who had been unfaithful to a trusting wife and was now risking his neck to pour gold into the greedy lap of a frowsy mistress.
"After four incessant years across Dora's knee the peace New Year ought surely to hold something good in its kindly lap for well-strafed automobilists.
To reach that country from the campoodie, one goes south and south, within hearing of the lip-lip-lapping of the great tideless lake, and south by east over a high rolling district, miles and miles of sage and nothing else.
At sunset he was in his accustomed seat in the orchard, his hands clasped over the breviary in his listless lap, his eyes fixed upon the mountain between him and that mysterious sea that had brought so much into his life.
Up, away, the frisky squirrel hies, Golden woodlights glancing in his eyes, And adown the tree Great ripe nuts, kissed brown by July sun, In the little lap dropped, one by one.
All the monotonous level lap of the heights which seemed without end was a symbol that separated her from her desire.
" It was not in nature for Aunt Barbara to say so much without crying, and her tears were dropping fast into her motherly lap, where Tabby was now lying.
" The three walked up and down, listening to the mournful lapping of the waves on the beach, and the sigh of the dripping rain.
By means of a pair of fluted feeding rollers a narrow lap, about 7½ in.
With what a heavy, heavy spirit From the earth's rustic lap I feel Again the joy of Springtide odors That once could make my spirit reel!
Here are some of them which I have culled from various authors: "A tiny feather from the wing of love, dropped into the sacred lap of motherhood.
Her brilliant eyes reflected the dancing firelight; her shapely hands, jewelled like Mrs. Breckenridge's, but after an even more rare and perfectly chosen fashion, lay in her silken lap.
The slow lapping of blood broke in on the stillness.
The village itself lay, spread out above the beach, a hundred feet below the windows, and the only sound was the steady lap and splash of the rollers upon the shingle.